quoted are from Professor Owen. It has lately been shown that some
quadrupeds much lower in the scale than monkeys, namely Rodents, are
able to produce correct musical tones: see the account of a singing
Hesperomys, by the Rev. S. Lockwood, in the American Naturalist, vol.
v. December, 1871, p. 761.]
404 (return) [ Mr. Tylor ( Primitive Culture, 1871, vol. i. p. 166),
in his discussion on this subject, alludes to the whining of the dog.]
405 (return) [ Naturgeschichte der Saugethiere von Paraguay, 1830, s.
46.]
406 (return) [ Quoted by Gratiolet, De la Physionomie, 1865, p. 115.]
407 (return) [ Theorie Physiologique de la Musique, Paris, 1868, P.
146. Helmholtz has also fully discussed in this profound work the
relation of the form of the cavity of the mouth to the production of
vowel-sounds.]
408 (return) [ I have given some details on this subject in my Descent
of Man, vol. i. pp. 352, 384.]
409 (return) [ As quoted in Huxley s Evidence as to Man s Place in
Nature, 1863, p. 52.]
410 (return) [ Illust. Thierleben, 1864, B. i. s. 130.]
411 (return) [ The Hon. J. Caton, Ottawa Acad. of Nat. Sciences, May,
1868, pp. 36, 40. For the _Capra, gagrus_, Land and Water, 1867, p.
37.]
412 (return) [ Land and Water, July 20, 1867, p. 659.]
413 (return) [ _Phaeton rubricauda_: Ibis, vol. iii. 1861, p. 180.]
414 (return) [ On the _Strix flammea_, Audubon, Ornithological
Biography, 1864, vol. ii. p. 407. I have observed other cases in the
Zoological Gardens.]
415 (return) [ _Melopsittacus undulatus_. See an account of its habits
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